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Diabetes is a disease that affects the body’s ability to control blood sugar (blood glucose). The effects of diabetes can include blindness, kidney disease, heart disease, stroke, and nerve damage. To understand diabetes, you first need to understand normal blood sugar.

Students who attend one of the 16 community colleges in Kentucky received good news recently about their tuition bills. The Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents voted Friday to leave tuition unchanged for another year. That’s a reversal of their decision previously to hike tuition from $147 to $150 per credit hour in 2015-16.

If Cartmell students want to know what is happening in their school, they watch the morning news. Filmed and broadcast on location at Cartmell Elementary School, the Cartmell Morning Newscast has been on the air for 11 years.

“The kids love it,” school librarian Sijean Hill said. “They take ownership of the newscast since they are the ones running it.”

Eastern Kentucky University has announced that Lauren Nicole Holloway of Carroll County has earned Dean’s List honors for the Fall 2014 semester. Holloway is majoring in Apparel Design and Merchandising. She is a past graduate of Carroll County High School.